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Translator Deborah Smith describes how publishing is an industry but translation is a community.
Filmmaker Cordula Kablitz-Post has been awarded the NDR Young Talent P…
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June 10, 2016Muhammad Ali signing autographs for Volendam women. Wikimedia Commons News, Reviews, and Interviews NPR’s Juan Vidal writes about Muhammad Ali’s poetic side and his skill for linguistic thea…
March 18, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews In this article from the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks details the “translation paradox.” Recent WLT contributor Gabeba Baderoon has been annou…
February 19, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Author Aleksandar Hemon reflects on the deadly error in dehumanizing millions of refugees. In this review of Inongo vi Makomè’s book Natives, Aaron Bady discus…- June 12, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Juan Felipe Herrera was appointed the poet laureate of the United States this week. Herrera is the first Latino poet to receive this honor. Herrera also…
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Translators nominated for Best Literary Translations 2026 (top row, left to right): Vonani Bila, David Boyd, Whitney DeVos, Kit…
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The Christie Archive Trust, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsWho is the world’s most translated author? Agatha Christie? Antoine de Saint-…
